“What is driving this is a desire to protect President Obama, who they view as being under siege by Republicans. To have his back. A desire that will surely increase now that the House has authorized House Speaker John Boehner’s lawsuit against the president.”

Thanks to this tweet which led me to the WaPo article – I now know what went on in the House today…

Boehner’s decision to punt on the border bill set off a wild scene on the House floor during a vote on the highway bill. Dozens of moderate and mainstream conservative Republicans, furious with the far-right Republicans who torpedoed the legislation, surrounded Boehner and newly minted Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), demanding that they not leave town without voting on immigration legislation.

In response, leaders called an emergency 3 p.m. closed-door meeting to discuss a potential way forward, delaying the start of the August recess.

“America did not send us here to do nothing,” said Rep. Steve Southerland II (R-Fla.), a junior member of the leadership team facing a tough November election.

“facing a tough November election” – says it all – they care not about the border issues – nor the children – they care about joining the unemployed – who they have completely ignored by not extending UI benefits.

And this one – upset because she was “upgraded” – talk about the spoils of office

In a vivid example of the fluidity of the situation, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) said she was at Reagan National Airport preparing to board a flight home to Miami when she was called to return to the U.S. Capitol.
“I was upgraded because of my miles, I was so close!” she said

Morning Ms Chips – you have been busy today. If it wasn’t so serious – I could laugh at Boehner through to the end of August.

Very telling (I think in the WAPO story) the more Boehner changed the bill to placate the right, the more democrats he lost. The original bill may have passed with democrat support. The later seems to be the only way Boehner can pass anything.

I’m older and it was a different time so back when I was still in Catholic high school in the early 1960s (ignore that part), we weren’t the ones cursing in my family … when I started 9th grade, my mother would say things to me like “You tell that goddamned nun tomorrow that I’m not taking that goddamned hem out of your gabardine uniform AGAIN just because she thinks it’s ‘too short.'” Of course, if I had told the goddamned nun that, my mother may or may not have stood by my side at the Joan-d’Arc-style trial.

Ha. These are stories her grandchildren and great grandchildren still cannot believe, because she later became a real sweetie, after we three daughters were raised and out of Catholic schools!

This was the era of mini skirts … the school rule (all girls’ Catholic high school for first two years) was your uniform had to be 14″ from the floor. The principal measured every girl on the first day of school that year, and I’m not kidding. I’m 5’9″ tall, so it was not my most attractive look during the era of mini skirts – Ha! – and it was an awful dark green gabardine material. After school, before joining our friends at the local luncheonette for a soda and a cigarette, where BOYS were, we’d use our uniform belts to hike up the skirts to proper length for the bleepin’ 1960s.

Chipsticks, these posts are fast and furious. I stepped for 10 minutes and returned to see another great one. Thanks much.

I love the development of The House of Tan Man’s caucus. This is back pay for supporting the teabaggers in their government shut-down. Now, there is no way to control them. In fact, the teabagger caucus controls Mr. Tan Man. What a charade! And to see the amount of money these losers are getting paid is frustrating. What are they doing for it??? They can’t even pass their own version of anything.

Who in their right mind would dislike PBO based on what pundits & rwnj say?
It’s kinda like how people booed, cursed, mistreated any AA athlete that worked hard and broke racial barriers..Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Tiger Woods, etc. Then america wants rewrite history as if that behavior never happened.

So, to re-cap
Seems like we are getting a bill to help Veterans thanks to hero Senator Sanders!!!!
And just maybe a border/immigration bill to do the decent humanitarian thing the moment demands. GOP humiliated as a by-product.
Not bad.

Nausea inducing, disgusting hate-filled cowards who have to hide their faces under Halloween costumes. Every one of those African Americans facing them deserves a medal for courage and grace in the line of fire.

I did just have one ugly memory come to mind about living in Lakeland … I hired a woman to clean for me one day, found her on Angie’s List or something. She had grown up in the area, and was white – in her 40s. Since I was new there, she gave me a little history of her own, including mentioning a “town hanging tree” that was still somewhere in the city, possibly near a school or something. Not sure if that were the case or she just made it up, but in a controlled voice, I asked why it hadn’t been cut down. She said, with a half-smile, “It’s still a perfectly good tree.”

This was 2008. The reason she brought it up was that I had gone into my “I support Barack Obama … are you voting in November” mode (I even hit up the cable guys that year, after I moved in, poor things), and she said she “never” voted, so I gave her more of my thoughts and basically stopped talking to her after she interjected how proud she was of the tree, paid her, and obviously never called her again.

The face of ugly, right in my home. A memory I guess I had pushed down, but still there.

I am so grateful to those who did not pretend not so see the horrific treatment of other human beings and chose to speak out. I hope we continue to do so and hold Bibi accountable for this massacre of a people so this genocide will never happen again.

Drunk and Glo did it again. He let Ted Cruz and the tea partiers in his own caucus buffalo him into making a complete idiot of himself.

The Senate bill was sitting on his desk for a year. Boehner could have gotten this out of the way last year! But no the man with the radiation tan let a certain Montreal moron run the show and today demonstrated once again why he’s the worse Speaker of the House since. Well. John Boehner.

He’s got to be working on giving the gavel back to Nancy. I mean right? No one can be this willfully bad at their job

Hi Layla – I love that coming to TOD gives a worldwide view of things – for most of my life Canada has been “pink” on the world map & other than sharing a Queen, I knew little about it. Finding close family living there has somewhat changed that – and TOD has provided a wider political and administrative picture – many thanks🙂

Waiting for that pencil necked geek’s column lamenting Boner’s “competency problem”. If the man who got healthcare reform passed, eliminated Bin Laden, saved the auto industry and saved the nation from a second Great Depression can be so cavalierly deemed incompetent, what term would describe Boner? Or are only African-American’s competency questioned in polite society? Also waiting for all the polls deeming Boner “worst Speaker of the House EVER”. This has been a very bad day for the GOP/MSM as reality keeps trumping the propaganda.

“Reality keeps trumping the propaganda” has been the story of the Press vs. the Pres since before he was elected! I remember my ex at the time was a huge comic book collector. In 2008, Alex Ross (a well-known graphic novel artist) did a portrait of then candidate Obama as Superman and I got a print framed for him as a gift. That painting was prescient, ’cause our PBO is like a superhero the way he gets things done against all odds, but the MSM keeps setting their bar for “competency” higher and higher or they credit others with his accomplishments.

Morning Joe only has the RWNJs watching his shoe – so of course they would not like him calling out Israel (which, of course, he talked back, like the good media GOPer he is) – may his ratings be the level of Boehner’s.